Awesome Ron !!!!lunarpower wrote:we have no reason to assume that the other two sides are parallel to the x- and y-axes.
there are LOTS of different right triangles with this side as hypotenuse - try drawing some. they'll have areas ranging all the way from approximately 0 (if point C is very close to A or B) to a maximum value (if the triangle is 45-45-90).
so yeah, that's still not sufficient. therefore, the issue of whether the right angle is located at C is immaterial; statement 1 is insufficient whether this is necessarily true or not.
Thanks a lot....
